postponed untill next summer, when (as we are assured) you intend to
revisit us, or whether you would chuse to have the business forthwith
proceeded upon, and some ingenious artificer or other to be employed
directly for the purpose. If the case, as stated in this latter
respect, is agreeable to you, whether, if any particular ingenious
person should be pitched upon and approved by the majority of, or most
considerable among, those who contributed that night, whether in such
case you would chuse to acquiesce. Your setting us clear in these
matters is much desired by many persons, well-wishers to the memory
of Shakespeare and to the person of Mr. Ward, his and our ingenious
benefactor. Particularly be pleased to believe these the wishes of,
Sir, your very humble servant, Joseph Green, Stratford-upon-Avon. Nov.
23, 1748.
Mr. Ward replied to this:
Sir,--I received the favor of yours, and am sensible of the honor you
and the gentlemen do me in appealing to my judgment with regard to
the monument of Shakespeare. I am ignorant of any disputes that may
have happened on that account, but own I was surprised when I heard
that nothing had been done in that affair. I entirely submit to the
opinions of the gentlemen who so generously contributed to the play
in every respect, and, as I intend paying a visit to Stratford next
summer, I hope to have the pleasure of seeing the monument of our
immortal Bard compleatly finished; and will readily come into any
proposal to make good the sum for the use intended, if what is already
in the churchwardens’ hands should prove deficient.--I am, Sir, your
most obedient servant, John Ward. Hereford, Dec. 3, 1748.
THE SECOND MEETING AT THE FALCON.
On Saturday evening, about nine o’clock, Mr. Kenwrick having exhibited
at Lilly’s at the Falcon a paper signifying what Mr. Hall was to
do, and of what materials to repair the monument of Shakespeare, he
proposed that Mr. Hall and Mr. Spur should sign the agreement, the
former that he might be obliged to do the work in a compleat manner,
and the latter that upon its being finished he should pay to Mr. Hall
the sum of twelve pounds ten shillings; but though Mr. Hall seemed
ready to sign this, and a pen and ink were called for publicly, yet
John Spur absolutely refused, and said he would never sign any paper
for the delivery of the money, ridiculously vaunting it that his word
ought to be taken as credibly as his bond, and his word would go for
£1,000. However, at last he was prevailed upon to declare before the
undermentioned witnesses that as soon as the monument was finished
he would, without further delay, pay the money. This affair happened
December 10, 1748.
Witnesses--The Rev. Mr. Kenwrick, Vicar of Stratford; Joseph Greene,
clerk, Master of the Free School; Mr. Turbitt, mercer; John Spur,
blacksmith, cashier, churchwardens of the borough when the money was
collected in 1746; Mr. Benjamin Haynes, glover; Mr. Joseph Broom,
weaver (for the borough); Mr. Samuel Morris, farmer; Mr. John Southam,
of Welcombe, farmer (for the parish churchwardens in 1748); Mr. John
Hall, undertaker of the work.
Another set of letters were “transcribed from the Greene MSS. penes Mr.
Wright, Lichfield.” The first from Mr. George Steevens, editor of the
Quarto edition of Shakespeare, dated Hampstead, 25th June 1770, to the
Honourable James West, Esq., formerly President of the Royal Society,
then residing at Alscot, near Stratford-on-Avon. He enclosed a letter
from Mr. Theophilus Lane, of Paston Court, near Hereford, addressed to
himself, and asked Mr. West to inform him whether the fact relative to
Shakespeare’s monument may be depended on, “as it should be added to
the other little anecdotes already known concerning him, if it can be
well ascertained.” He also asked a confirmation of some conversations
he had once had with his honourable friend some years previously.[113]
The letter Steevens enclosed from Mr. Theophilus Lane itself encloses
another from a friend of his who had missed seeing him on the day they
both visited Shakespeare’s tomb. This friend had misread the date of
Mrs. Hall’s tombstone, and could not harmonize it with the date on
Shakespeare’s. He considered that Shakespeare’s monument had little
authority as to its date and inscription, and thought that the monument
must have been put up after everybody had died who knew him.
This letter Theophilus Lane had forwarded to Steevens, and Steevens
to the Honourable James West. He apparently in his turn had submitted
it to the Rev. Joseph Greene, as the latter writes to Mr. West a long
letter containing his strictures on it. He shows that the confusion
of dates arose from misreading the date of Mrs. Hall’s death as 1640
instead of 1649, which can be corrected from the parish registers, and
therefore that the other arguments based upon this mistake are, of
course, valueless; and adds:
Applause is due to every investigator of _Truth_, provided he is
sufficiently attentive in his enquiries; and although I allow this
letterwriter’s superstructural remarks are ingenious enough, yet as he
did not sufficiently examine the solidity of his foundation, I cannot
think him entitled to any man’s thanks.
This letter is only of importance as illustrating a great deal of the
shallow criticism of Shakespeare, which is based upon preliminary
errors made by the critics themselves. In this case, we might have
hoped that the Rev. Joseph Greene would have explained about the
restoration of the tomb, so lately carried out under his supervision,
and settled the degree of fidelity with which Mr. John Hall had
carried out his instructions. Unfortunately, the unnamed writer
having only attempted to criticise the _dates_, which were quite able
to be checked, the Rev. Joseph Greene did not think fit to account
for the extraordinary freshness of the tomb so lately “beautified,”
a freshness which was very likely to have first roused the doubt as
to “its authority” in the writer’s mind, if he had not known all the
circumstances.
This is all my new information, but it is something to go on. I have
not italicized the important words in my transcripts, but I may
now remind my readers that by 1746 the “curious original” was much
“impaired and decayed,” a decay so serious as to rouse the actively
sympathetic feelings of Mr. John Ward towards necessary restoration.
The fact is recorded that Mr. John Hall was to have the doing of the
work of “repairing and rebeautifying,” or “the direction” of it. But
that “materials” were to be used.
My arguments are these. No one would call the present tomb a “curious”
one; but, as represented by Dugdale in his “Antiquities of Warwick”
(1651), it is “curious,” a curiousness which had increased, by the
process of decay, when Rowe produced it in his “Life,” 1709. Mr. John
Hall, acting in all good faith, after provincial notions of restoration
in the eighteenth century, would fill up the gaps, restore what was
missing, as he thought it ought to be, and finally repaint it according
to the original colours, traces of which he might still be able to see
in the hollows of the bust.
It would only be giving good value for his money to his churchwardens
if he added a cloak, a pen, and manuscript. He could not help changing
the expression, from the worn and thoughtful face preserved by Dugdale,
to the plumped-out foundation he made in some “material” convenient for
his re-beautifying colours. I have stated elsewhere that I consider the
so-called “portrait” at the birth-place to have been painted either by
Hall or from Hall, and the little, old representation of Shakespeare’s
tomb lent by the Earl of Warwick for the present Shakespeare Exhibition
at Whitechapel Art Gallery probably dates from the same period.
I myself consider Dugdale and his draughtsmen wonderfully careful for
their period. Those tombs which have not been altered are remarkably
faithful representations. See, for instance, the tomb of Sir Thomas
Lucy at Charlecote. Now, Dugdale was a Warwickshire man, born only
a comparatively short distance from Stratford, eleven years before
Shakespeare died. He was an admirer of Shakespeare, and knew the bust
he engraved. He was in Stratford in attendance on Queen Henrietta Maria
when, at the outbreak of the Civil War, she stayed in Shakespeare’s
house as the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Hall. There was every reason
to believe that he would be more careful in regard to representing
Shakespeare’s tomb (instead of less careful) than he was with others.
The second edition of Dugdale’s “Warwickshire” was revised, corrected,
expanded, the illustrations _checked_, and added to by Dr. Thomas, who
was also a Warwickshire man, residing very near Stratford-on-Avon.
And he produced the representation of the original tomb from the same
unaltered block which Dugdale used. There is, therefore, little reason
to doubt that Dugdale was fairly correct both in the face and figure
of the “curious monument,” and that the alterations made in 1748-9,
great as they are, did not strike the gentlemen of Stratford-on-Avon as
anything _worse_ than “beautifying.” The dates and verses were left as
they were, and the monument, thus strengthened, survives to preserve
the memory of the “Sweet Swan of Avon!”
All this has no bearing on the Baconian controversy. It only relates to
the likeness of the presentment and the reliability of Dugdale.
_“Pall Mall Gazette,” 18th and 21st November 1910._
P.S.--My later discoveries appear on p. 122.
FOOTNOTES:
[111] Mr. Savage has just given me a note: “The Roman writers use
‘Adolescens’ and ‘Juvenis’ promiscuously. So Alexander is called
Adolescens when he died at thirty-two; Cæsar that year when he was High
Priest, and thirty-five at least (Livy?); and Brutus and Cassius in
their Praetorship when they were forty (Sallust?).”
[112] Mrs. Wilson (since married to Mr. Butcher) plays very well and
genteely on the violin.
[113] The letter is preserved among the MSS. of West of Alscot,
purchased by the British Museum from the heirs of the first Marquis of
Lansdowne.
FINIS
INDEX
_Of some of the more important names_, not _including that of the poet,
who pervades nearly every page_.
Adams, Edward, 243.
Adolescens, Adolocentula, 332.
Ainge, Richard, 68.
William, 57.
Akenside, the poet, 288.
Alcokkes, John, 12.
Aleworth, Nicholas, 243.
Alfred, King, 4.
Allday, John, 254.
Allen, John, 190.
Alleyne, Giles, 180, 187-8, 193-5, 198-9, 201-4.
Sara, 180, 199, 204.
Amadis de Gaule, 308.
Amere Thurston, 215.
Ames, Dr. Percy, 314.
Roger, 196-8.
Angel, John, 243.
Anjou Brook, 227, 229.
Annesley, Mistress Cordelia, 160.
“Archaeologia,” 342.
Archebolde, Nicholas, 343.
Archer, Mr. 338-9.
Ardens of Park-Hall, 4, 38, 47, 48.
Barbara, 54.
Edward, 51, 54.
Geoffrey, 283.
Henry, 48, 49.
Sir John, 13, 38, 48-9, 139.
Joyce, 48.
Margery, 49.
Martin, 48, 49, 53.
Robert, 38, 48, 49, 50, 139.
Simon, 53.
Thomas, 48, 49, 50, 53.
Sir Walter, 37, 48, 49, 50, 51.
William, 48, 49, 53, 139.
Ardens of Wilmcote, 11, 13.
Agnes, 17-20, 22, 23, 24-36, 39, 66.
Alice, 17, 18, 23, 39, 52.
Elizabeth, 24, 52.
Joan, 17, 26.
Joyce, 17, 23.
Katharine, 17, 22.
Margaret, 17, 51, 52.
Mary, 4, 18, 23, 29, 37, 39, 40, 47.
Robert, 7, 12-14, 16-18, 26, 29, 30, 33-5, 37, 39, 48, 50, 57, 66.
Thomas, 12-14, 16, 33-4, 37-8, 50-2, 54.
Armin’s “Nest of Ninnies,” 259, 267.
Arthur, Prince, 305.
Asbies, 5, 18, 28, 37-8, 40, 41, 44-7.
Ascham, Roger, 58, 313, 315.
Askew, Anne, 318-19.
Aston Cantlowe, 12, 18, 28, 37-8, 40, 41, 44, 45.
Aston Hastings, 18, 22.
Attleborowe, William, 276.
Awdeley, John, 42.
Sir Thomas, 235.
Aylmer, Bishop John, 315.
Babbye, Richard, 117.
Bacon, Lady Anne, 322.
Anthony, 322.
Francis, 156, 203, 280, 285, 286, 290, 322.
Sir Nicholas, 322.
“Bacon Shakespeare Question Answered, The,” 295.
Badger, George, 345.
Baildon, Mr., 41.
Baker, Daniel, 83, 339.
Jane, 73.
Judith, 208.
Mary, 208.
Mrs. Mary, 208-9.
Robert, 206-9.
Samuel, 208.
Mr., 339, 340.
Ballard’s “Learned Ladies,” 301-5, 318, 325.
Bang, Professor, 175.
Banks, James, 251.
Barber, Joane, 89.
Thomas, 88-9.
Mr., 61, 62.
Barbour, William, 243.
Barker, Anthony, 82.
Henry, 83.
John, 82, 83.
William, 82.
Mr., 87, 88.
Barnard, John, 117.
Barnes, Mr., 266, 267.
Mr. W., 86.
Barry, Mrs., 107.
Barwick, Mr., 87.
Bassett, Anne, 260.
John, 300.
Bassock, Robert, 243.
Baxter, Thomas, 70.
Bearley, 17, 19.
Beauchamp, Elizabeth, 38.
Mr., 328.
Becon’s “Jewell of Joye,” 5, 55.
Beden, Jane, 264, 269.
John, 264.
Richard, 264.
Beesley, John, 345.
Bell’s Edition of Shakespeare, 112.
Belvoir MS., 229, 235.
Benbow, John, 164, 243.
Bennet, Christopher, 224.
Bentley’s “Mon. of Matrons,” 314.
Berry, William, 46.
Bethell, Mr., 164, 165.
Bett, John, 277.
Betterton, Mr., 107.
Betts, Mr. Arthur, 332.
Bifield, Rev. Mr., 332.
Billesley, 12, 13.
Bishop, John, 128-131.
Blancke, Mrs., 170.
Blundeston, John, 211.
Blunt, W., 129.
Michael, 129.
Blythe, John, 68, 69, 70, 71.
Boaden’s Enquiry, 18.
Boar’s Head Tavern, 285, 286.
Boleyn, Anne, 311.
Bolingbroke, 281.
Bond, Thomas, 224, 277.
Bornell, Robert, 277.
Boutener, John, 176.
Boseley, Roger, 221.
Bower, Richard, 243, 244.
Bowling Greens, The, 212.
Boyes, Richard, 277.
Bradshawe, John, 222.
Brandl, Dr. Alois, 160.
Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk, 315.
Braynes, Ellen, 181, 182-5.
John, 181-8, 200.
Margaret, 187, 196, 202.
Braytoft, John, 276.
Richard, 276, 277.
Brent, Anker, 77.
Brigham, Francis, 169.
Nicholas, 163, 169, 170.
Rachel, 169.
Brinsley, 288.
Briscowe, Hugh, 256.
Britton, John, 120, 121.
“Broad Views,” 285.
Brograve, Mrs., 251.
Bromley, Sir Thomas, 25.
Bronde, John, 23.
Broom, Mr. Joseph, 348-50.
Brown, John, 83.
Ford Madox, 107.
Browne, Sir Anthony, 145, 146, 246, 262.
Mary, 145, 146.
Brownell, Edward, 278.
Browning’s Poems, 111.
Bruce, Mr., 94.
Bruno, Giordano, 140.
Bryan, Lady Mary, 306.
Bryghte, George, 221.
Buchanan, George, 317, 323.
Buckherde, John, 217.
Buckhurst, Lord, 294.
Buckingham, Duke of, 107.
Bucklersbury, 7.
Bull, Dr., 328.
Bullock, Mr. George, 120.
Bumpstead, Christopher, 197.
Burbage, James, 9, 176-9, 180-7, 193-9.
Alice, 188.
Cuthbert, 188, 190-9, 201.
Ellen, 188.
Richard, 9, 105, 106, 193, 194, 201, 230, 231, 291.
“Burbage and Shakespeare’s Stage,” 205.
Burman, Stephen, 83.
Thomas, 83.
Burton, Robert, 293.
Butcher, John, 224.
Butler, Richard, 278.
Butler, John, 27, 30.
Byddel, Robert, 72, 73.
Byrde, Thomas, 243.
William, 243.
Cale, Thomas, 57.
Calvin’s Works, 58, 60.
Camden’s Works, 53, 257.
Camoys, Thomas, 126.
Carew, Sir Peter, 164.
Lord, 337.
Carnarvon, Marquis, 107.
Carne, Nicholas, 221.
Carter, Roger, 165.
William, 224.
Cæsar, Sir Julius, 98, 102.
Caustell, Lucas, 243.
Cawston, Thomas, 243.
Centon, Roger, 243.
Chamberlain, Thomas, 18, 22.
Robert, 243.
Chambers, E. K., 236.
Champernowne, Catherine, 260.
Chandler, Mr., 339, 340.
Chandos Portrait, 106, 111.
Chapel Royal, 161-173, 238, 244.
Chapman, the poet, 154.
Charnells, John, 48.
Chaucer’s Tomb, 170.
Cheke, Sir John, 313.
Churchyard’s, Thomas, Poems, 327.
Cicero’s Works, 59, 313.
Clark, Dr. A., 4.
Clarke, Rev. Henry, 101.
Clawston, Thomas, 243.
Clement, Dr. John, 320, 321.
Elizabeth, 321.
Winifred, 321.
Clerke, Thomas, 221.
Clifford, Lady Anne, 329, 330.
Edward, 80.
Clifford, George, 80.
Henry, 249.
Sir Ingram, 251.
Lady Margaret, 162, 249-256, 260, 261, 329.
Clopton, Sir Hugh, 2, 120, 348.
Joyce, 337.
Thomas, 12, 14, 32.
Clopton Tomb, 116, 123.
Cloudesley, Thomas, 215.
Cogges, John, 256.
Coke, Sir Edward, 90, 339-42.
Cole, Thomas, 223.
Colin Clout, 325, 326.
Collenes, Richard, 277.
Colley, Thomas, 42.
Collins, Francis, 102, 279.
Simon, 122.
Collines, Matthew, 279.
Combe or Combes, George, 336.
John, 46, 84, 117, 336, 342.
Mary, 83.
Thomas, 84, 89, 336, 340.
William, 82-4, 89, 90, 215, 336, 337, 342.
Compton, Lord, 233, 234.
Condell, 105.
Constable’s, Henry, Works, 137, 154.
Constantinopolis, 76.
Conway, Sir Edward, Viscount, 83, 212.
Cookes, William, 18, 21, 22, 27.
Coombe Abbey, 328.
Cooper, Thomas, 223.
Cornish, ----, 41.
Cornwell, Edward, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26-30, 33, 42, 66.
Margaret, 20, 22, 28, 29.
Cotterell, Hugh, 129.
Court, Officers of, 243.
Court, William, 83.
Courtenay, Ed., Earl Devonshire, 165.
Covell, William, 290.
Coventre, Walter de, 283.
Coventry, Roll of, 275.
Crane, William, 169.
Cranmer, Archbishop, 167, 215.
Crispin, Anthony, 310.
Cromwell, Oliver, 329.
Thomas, 215.
Crowland, Robert, 324.
Crowley’s four-part Psalms, 238.
Crynds, Jonah, 284.
Culsheth, Jeffrey, 207.
Cunninghame, William, 76.
Curtesse, John, 217.
Cust, Lionel, Mr., 106.
Dafferne, John, 18, 22, 27, 30.
Danby, William, 251, 257.
Dancy, Elizabeth, 320.
Daniel’s Poems, 137, 154, 326, 329.
John, 166, 167.
Danvers, Sir Charles, 157.
Henry, 157.
Darly, Roger, 223.
Davenant, Sir William, 106-7.
Davenport, Rev. Mr., 120.
Davies, Israel, 79.
John, 9, 290, 291.
Thomas, 79.
Davys, Robert, 219.
Dawes, William, 277.
Dee, Dr., 300.
Madinia, 301.
Margaret, 301.
Denman, John, 243.
Derby, Countess of, 257.
Earl of, 253, 257.
Ferdinand, 257.
Descartes, 329.
Dethricke, John, 163-5.
Digby, George, 25.
Digges, Leonard, 107, 114.
Dod, Richard, 216.
Dogberry, 65.
Donne, Dr., 328.
Donnelly, Mr., 293.
Doran, Dr., Court Fools, 258.
Dormer, Cottrell, Mr., 147.
Dove, John, 277.
Drayton, Michael, 56, 134, 287.
Droeshout’s, Portrait, 105-9.
Duffield, Thomas, 217.
Dudley, Sir Ambrose, 25, 255.
Sir Andrew, 247, 249, 250, 251, 255, 256.
Lord Guildford, 248.
Henry, 166, 252, 255, 256.
Jerome, 247, 248.
John, Duke of Northumberland, 3, 247, 248, 251, 252.
Lord Robert, 249, 255, 257.
Dugdale, Sir William, 48, 50, 57, 74, 108-11, 115, 117, 119, 122-3.
Dr. Thomas’s Edition, 281, 298.
Dugdale, Mr., of Merivale, 352, 353.
Dyxson, Richard, 72.
East, Margery, 50.
Henry, 50.
Edkins, Joyce, 34, 35, 36.
Katharine, 17, 21, 22, 34, 35, 36.
Thomas, 17, 21, 22.
Edward VI, 4, 313, 314, 317.
Edwards, George, 243.
Richard, 173.
Thomas, 152.
Elizabeth, Queen, 3, 7, 55, 130-2, 143-4, 152, 165, 170-3, 178-9, 226,
248, 264, 269, 275, 312-15, 327.
Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, 84, 96, 337.
Earl of, 106.
Ellinor, Countess of Cumberland, 248, 249.
Ellys, Nicholas, 216.
Elton, John, 78.
Elyot, Sir Thomas, 280, 282, 304, 319.
Erasmus, 303, 306, 311, 318, 319.
Errors, Comedy of, 156, 293, 294.
Evans, Henry, 193.
Evelyn’s Diary, 213.
Exchequer Accounts, 196, 242.
Faithorne, William, 106, 213.
Fane, Lady Elizabeth, 324.
Sir Ralph, 324.
Farmer, Thomas, 129, 130.
Farrant, Richard, 175, 241-3.
Feckenham, Abbot, 316.
Ferris, Richard, 222.
Feryman, Thomas, 20.
Fettiplace, Edmund, 129.
Feuillerat, Professor, 175.
Field, Richard, 8, 56, 60, 137, 138, 140, 153, 219, 290.
Jacquinetta, 155.
Ursula, 61.
Fisher, John, 39, 220, 222.
Richard, 15.
Fitton, Mary, 143, 144.
Fitzherbert, Antonio, 38.
Flecknoe, Christopher, 93.
Fleetwood, Recorder, 186.
Fletcher, Mr., 223.
Flint, Miles, 283.
Flower, Mrs., 106.
Ford, William, 277.
Fordun’s “Scoto-Chronicon,” 281.
Forrest, William, priest, 310.
Foster, John, 345.
Fowler, Edmund, 97-8, 101-2.
Foxe the Martyrologist, 316, 323.
Franklin, John, 78.
Mercall, 78.
Fraunce, Abraham, 326.
Freeborne, Richard, 284.
Froude, Mr., 166.
Fuller’s Worthies, 317, 323.
Furnivall, Dr. F. J., 115, 134, 175, 183, 295.
Gales’ Chirurgery, 57.
Garner, John, 277.
Garnett, Dr. Richard, 110.
Gardiner, John, 187-8.
Robert, 187-8.
Garradd, Richard, 221.
Garrard, Rev. George, 212.
Garrat, William, 256.
Gascard, Mrs., 230.
Gascoigne, George, 172.
L. C. J., 280-2.
Gate, Sir Henry, 252.
Sir John, 252.
“Genealogical Magazine,” 12.
_Genus Humanum_, 239.
Gerard, John, 215.
Gerson’s, Dr. John, works, 305.
Gibbons, Thomas, 50.
Gibbs, George, 41.
John, 72.
Mr. Joseph, 284.
Gifford, G., on Witches, 58.
Giggs, Margaret, 321.
Gilbard, _alias_ Higges, William, 333-4.
Gillett, Gabriell, 78.
Israel, 78.
Goddard, William, 223.
Gollancz, Dr. Israel, 115.
Gooderidge, Mary, 231.
Goodwyn, Mary, 301.
Goodyere, Sir Henry, 298.
Goulding, Robert, 224.
Gower, Lord Ronald, 107.
Gowry Conspiracy, 225.
Grant, Edward, 20.
Richard, 15, 78.
Gravesend, William, 243.
Gray’s Elegy, 1.
Gray, Mr. Joseph, 6, 92, 97.
Green, Philip, 72.
Greene, John, 87, 102, 341.
Robert, 135, 141, 153, 290.
Thomas, 83, 84-8, 104, 279, 338;
his Diary, 85, 86, 87, 98, 337, 340.
Greenwood, Mr., 115.
Greville, Sir Edward, 83, 339.
Sir Fulke, 31-3, 56, 93, 152.
Grey, Henry, Duke of Suffolk, 315.
Frances, Duchess, 248, 315.
Lady Jane, 248, 251-2, 315, 316.
Griffen, Edith, 80.
Jane, 80.
Richard, 80.
Grignon, Reginald, engraver, 110, 112.
Grimeston, Elizabeth, 325.
Gybbes, Richard, 221.
Hale, Rev. Robert, 75, 76, 80, 81.
Hales, Bartholomew, 19, 20, 26, 71.
Mary, 20.
Hall, Dr. John, of Maidstone, 296, 314.
Hall, Dr. John, of Stratford, 7, 84, 86.
Elizabeth, 7.
Susanna, 7, 117, 351, 353.
Mr. John, 111-14, 119-22, 348, 350, 352.
Hamlet, 9, 139.
Hampden, John, 48.
Eleanor, 48.
Haines, Nicholas, 278.
Hanmer’s, Sir Thomas, edition of Shakespeare, 111, 113.
Harris, Miss Dormer, 279, 282, 284.
Harding, Richard, 15-20.
Robert, 285.
Harford, John, 278.
Hargrave, John, 18.
Harington, Sir John, 323, 328.
Harleian MS., 48, 126.
Harrison’s “England,” 124, 134.
Hart, Sir Percival, 262.
Mr., 261, 262.
Harvey, Gabriel, 137.
William, 15, 148, 149, 159, 160.
H. W., 141, 145.
Hawe, Richard, 15.
Hawkins and Burney “Hist. of Music,” 242.
Haynes, Mr. Alderman, 348.
Haselwood, Samuel, 223.
Hearne’s works, 281.
Hechons, William, 243.
Heminge, 105.
Hemings, Eme, 78.
John, 78.
Heneage, Sir Thomas, 156, 157, 159, 160, 166.
Henley, John, 18, 19, 34.
Richard, 17.
Henrietta Maria, Queen, 353.
Henry, Prince, 276, 280, 284, 328.
Henry V, 281.
Henry VIII, 277.
Herbert William, Lord, 142-4, 325.
Heron, Cecilia, 320.
Heynings, William, 216.
Heywood, John, 78, 241.
Katharine, 78.
Master, 244.
Thomas, 158-9.
Hewins, Agnes, 17.
John, 17.
Hiccox, Lewis, 339.
Higford, Henry, Seneschal, 331.
Hill, Agnes, 16.
John, 16.
Katharine, 78.
Rev. Neville, 74.
Hilman, James, 19.
Hobart, Lord, 341.
Hobday, Piers, 80.
Hoby, Sir Thomas, 322.
Hodges, Richard, 219.
Holbache, William, 15.
Holland, H., 58.
Honorificabilitatitudinibus, 74, 75.
Hooper, Humphrey, 41.
Horn, Christopher, 70.
Hornby, John, 276, 279, 280, 283.
Thomas, 83.
Horne, William, 284.
Horniold, Thomas, 80.
Horsall, Richard, 278.
Horsekeeper, Mary, 79.
Howard, Henry, Earl of Arcende, 324.
Huband, Sir John, 82.
Hudson, Richard, 203.
Humphrey, William, 226.
Hunnis, Marchadine, 174.
Margaret, 169.
Thomas, 174.
William, 161-5, 169, 170-5, 241-4, 243, 254.
Hunt, Richard, 278.
Hyde, John, 184.
Impresa, an, 229.
Ingleby, Dr. C. M., 82-8.
Inglis, Esther, 325.
Sir John, 76.
Ingram, Anthony, 44.
Sir Arthur, 339.
Innes, John, 172.
Philip, 171.
Interlude of Youth, 241.
Ipolyta the Tartarian, 270-1.
Ireland, Richard, 223.
W. H., 112, 113.
Isabel of Portugal, 311.
Jackson, Anne, 79.
Hester, 78.
Humanitas, 78, 79.
Mary, 79.
William, 79.
Jaggard, William, 151, 158, 159.
Jakemane, Thomas, 83.
James, Nicholas, 72.
Jane the Fool, 258, 259, 260.
Jane Seymour, the Queen, 235, 236.
Jeaffreson, Cordy, 184.
Jeccoxe, Francis, 57.
John, 57.
Jeffrey, Mr., 89.
Jeffreys, William, 71.
Jennens, John, 221.
Johnson, Gerard, 107, 114, 117.
William, 179.
Jonson, Ben, 105, 214, 327.
Juego de Cañas, 162-3, 254.
Jump, Richard, 73.
Justice Shallow not Sir Thomas Lucy, 289.
Keats, 288.
Keball, Henry, 277.
Keck, Mr., 107.
Kemp, William, 144, 277.
Kempson, Richard, 83.
Kenet, John, 216.
Kenilworth Festivities, 241.
Kenwrick, Rev. Mr., 348, 350.
Keruin, Robert, 278.
Ketall, William, 13.
Killigrew, Henry, 323.
Kingdon, Mr., 170.
Kingston, Sir Anthony, 165.
Knolles, Nicholas, 21, 22, 24-6.
Lambert, Edmund, 17, 26, 27, 30, 33, 40-4, 45, 138.
Joan, 17, 26, 27, 33, 34, 35.
John, 44, 45, 46, 138, 139.
Lane, John, 83.
Lane, Nicholas, 67, 334.
Richard, 46, 83, 202.
Laneham, John, 179.
Lang, Mr. Andrew, 115, 116.
Lansdowne, Marquis of, 351.
MS., 127, 128.
Latimer’s Works, 58, 217.
Lee, George, 222.
Legge, Elizabeth, 324.
Leicester, Earl of, 39, 147, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 186.
Leland, 38, 313, 321.
Lennox, Lord Charles Stewart, 327.
Leofric and Godiva, 284.
Leon, Mr. John, 324.
Letherborough, Robert, 278.
Ley, Thomas, 95, 100.
Lilly’s Grammar, 306.
Linacre, Dr., 306.
Lindsay, Sir David, 328.
Locks and Weirs, 130, 134.
Lodge, Thomas, 135.
Lord, Ralph, 72.
Lovadge, John, 222.
Lucam, John, 243.
Lucar, Emmanuel, 301.
Lucas, Thomas, 86.
Ludford, Nicholas, 218.
Luen, Richard, 243.
Lumley, Lady Jane, 323.
Lyly’s, John, “Euphues,” 304.
Lyne, Cuthbert, 223.
Machyn’s Diary, 166.
Madden, Sir Frederick, 258.
Maddox, John, 202.
Mainwaring, Mr., 84, 337.
Malone, Edmund, 94, 112, 113, 114, 120, 121.
Maltravers, Henry, Lord, 323.
Man, William, 224.
Manners, Margerie, 78.
Richard, 78.
Marecocke, Robert, 243.
Margaret of Navarre, 314, 323.
Margaret, Countess of Richmond, 305.